Business development

Some owners are reluctant to give away an equity stake. Here is one solution.

The No. 1 IBD’s advisory AUM flows show results from the company’s efforts to reward advisors for choosing its custody instead of outside firms.

The 50 largest teams and OSJs to change their affiliations show both the threat to incumbent firms posed by RIAs and the scale afforded by acquisitions.

Executives say valuing friendliness alongside other factors is helping to drive a record $66 million in incoming production this year.

The advisors retained from shuttering Broker Dealer Financial Services will add more than 80 advisors now able to tap into the buying firm’s offerings.

CEO Jamie Price and other executives met with some 1,000 prospective advisors after inking one of the largest M&A deals in the IBD space this year.

The No. 1 IBD’s major spending on recruiting, technology and organic growth is yielding big returns.

Seven IBDs turn 50 this year. Here's why most of them won't survive another half-century.

The No. 1 IBD poached two more teams from the largest firm in rival network Cetera Financial Group.

The No. 7 IBD expects such moves by advisors to increase in coming years, so it's ramping up offerings aimed at fee-only services.

As mega firms scale up and niche advisors specialize further, profits for a vast swath of the advisory market are getting squeezed.

Allianz became the second multinational insurance firm to step away from the IBD space this year under a plan to shutter Questar Capital.

Sterne Agee changed its name after Stifel sold the firm in 2016 to INTL FCStone for about $50 million.

The private equity firm completed the largest IBD purchase of the year by acquiring the majority of the 7,700-advisor network.

Charged with leading the firm’s recruiting and sales strategy, Scott Posner will report to the recent successor to Bill Morrissey, who left the firm last month.

Establishing personal key performance indicators is vital, planners say at XY Planning Network conference.

Amid industry concerns, the largest RIA lender promises not to share data between the bank and its new wealth firm.

Retired former CEO Mike Sherzan ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2016, and he became chairman of the board prior to the deal.

Dan Arnold says the firm remains interested if deals are a match for the No. 1 IBD.

The owner of RIA aggregator Mercer Advisors has pledged to maintain the IBD network’s current structure under the deal.